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    What you see is what you get : a partial identification approach to school choice
    (2021) Selman, Dominga; Celhay, Pablo; Figueroa González, Nicolás Andrés; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía
    Using a robust method of discrete choice analysis proposed by Barseghyan (2021), I estimate parents’ preferences in the context of school choice. To account for information costs, I develop a model where parents only know about a subset of all available schools. Choice sets are unobservable and can have different sizes. I partially identify my model using Pre-K applications from Chile’s new centralized school admissions system. My results suggest that current assumptions on the observability of agents’ choice sets are too strong. However, the estimation method I use lacks computational tractability, so the challenge of finding an alternative approach to estimate parents’ preferences in contexts of incomplete information remains.